01-02 Mar, 2016 - Accra, GHANA
Labadi Beach Hotel
Labadi Beach Hotel
Ghana can benefit from the rising demand for cassava chips in China. The country already supplies cassava chips to China since the two countries signed the cassava export agreement in 2013.
China currently needs 4 million metric tonnes of cassava chips or dried cassava annually. However, this demand is not fully met as there is a gap in supply of 2 million metric tonnes. The demand comes from China’s six factories that require cassava chips (konkonte) to produce alcohol-fuel. Cassava roots that contains about 80% fermentable substances is a suitable feedstock for these factories.
Apart from Ghana, Vietnam is the only country that exports cassava chips (konkonte) annually to China. However, there is still a huge cassava export gap that needs to be filled and Ghana can take advantage of it.
In Ghana, companies are targeting to export cassava chips to China. A company has undertaken several initiatives to encourage farmers to take advantage of the new market opportunities in cassava exports. Five regions in Ghana – Central, Volta, Brong Ahafo, Ashanti and Eastern have been chosen to undergo training through workshops and seminars for cassava production, processing and storage.
At 2nd Cassava World Africa on 1-2 March, 2016 in Accra learn more about Ghana’s cassava production roadmap.
For more details email Ms. Grace at grace@cmtp.com.sg or call +65 6346 9147.
